Random thought of the day
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I have good memories about PS1, but I'll forever hate memory cards and whatever hardware timing crap they put there that made them so sloooow.
Turn that devil thing off now!
Mooohm!
It's 10 o'clock already!
Mooohm! Let me just save it and...
yanks the power cord and takes the thing away for a week
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
it is technically correct.
I guess it is, if you know that "clear data" means something. Which, again, it clearly does for you and probably anyone else who played that kind of games (not me, but by the 90's I had already graduated from kid gaming devices to proper ones //).
So yeah, I'm not saying it doesn't make sense in context, just that I don't have that context.
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@remi nah, I only discovered what this is about by trial and error.
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The department store & title sponsor of a well known Thanksgiving Day parade is really missing out on a branding opportunity. They should add a “adult” section to their lingerie department. Everyone would want to wear Macy’s Racys.
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@izzion said in Random thought of the day:
The department store & title sponsor of a well known Thanksgiving Day parade is really missing out on a branding opportunity. They should add a “adult” section to their lingerie department. Everyone would want to wear Macy’s Racys.
Leading up to Y2K I discovered that the Ford Motor Company still had trademark ownership of a car model that my parents owned back in the sixties. Yet nobody there had the brilliant idea to put out a special edition Millennium Falcon.
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@da-Doctah not quite sure how random this thought is.
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There's a popular app here called "Sharesies" for sharemarket trading. There should be a corresponding app for commodities trading.
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@Watson said in Random thought of the day:
There's a popular app here called "Sharesies" for sharemarket trading.
I heard of others but not this one. Did it also ban trading video game retail stores once upon a time or not?
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Watson said in Random thought of the day:
There's a popular app here called "Sharesies" for sharemarket trading.
I heard of others but not this one. Did it also ban trading video game retail stores once upon a time or not?
For a few hours when it was blocked upstream.
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When you say "if you don't mind I'm going to do X", technically you're not saying anything about whether you will or not do X if they do mind.
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@Zecc I hate that construct. It breaks the "no means no" heuristic.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc I hate that construct. It breaks the "no means no" heuristic.
So, would you say you would mind having a problem with it?
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"Mad" is synonymous with "angry".
"Respect" is synonymous with "upvote".
And yet "mad respect" is not synonymous with "angry upvote".
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
"Mad" is synonymous with "angry".
"Respect" is synonymous with "upvote".
And yet "mad respect" is not synonymous with "angry upvote"."Mad" is sometimes, occasionally, in some contexts synonymous with "angry".
Polysemy is fun.
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We're actually closer to the year Batman Beyond is set in (2039) than the year it aired in (1999).
Also some dumb plot devices:
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Last episode of DS9 season 3, a Changeling posing as an ambassador tells Sisko to take the Defiant out to the Tzenkethi border. Sisko doesn't confirm the orders with Starfleet and almost starts a war when the Changeling sabotages the ship to attack on autopilot. The crew barely stops him in time largely thanks to Odo. A couple of episodes later, Odo is escorting the Bajoran First Minister Shakar around the station and doesn't confirm a voice code for the fucking elevator, but saves everybody by himself, and Sisko berates him. I sure hope some admiral in Starfleet slapped Sisko upside his head for a much bigger fuckup.
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Watching the Suicide Squad episode of Justice League ("Task Force X"). It starts with police walking Floyd Lawton AKA Deadshot to the electric chair. Wait a second. They put the Joker, Two Face, Mad Hatter, Toyman, Livewire, etc in jail or the funny farm, but they're putting Deadshot to death? Really?
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@Zenith said in Random thought of the day:
doesn't confirm a voice code for the fucking elevator, but saves everybody by himself, and Sisko berates him. I sure hope some admiral in Starfleet slapped Sisko upside his head
If they had good writers, this might be the direct evidence that exactly that did in fact happen, and Sisko is now passing an upside slap received, as is common practice. But only 5 seasons of TV in total have ever had good writers.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
But only 5 seasons of TV in total have ever had good writers.
And at least one of those belonged to Babylon 5.
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@Arantor that leaves only one, then.
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From https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/
In 2005, a college student made a webpage called The Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was a joke based on the idea that there was no more scientific evidence for God or creationism than for belief in a flying spaghetti monster. The monster’s website received tens of millions of visitors, 60,000 emails (“about 95 percent” supportive), and was covered in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Daily Telegraph. Six publishing companies entered a bidding war for the rights to the spaghetti monster’s “gospel”, with the winner, Random House, offering an $80,000 advance. The book was published to massive fanfare, sold over 100,000 copies, and was translated into multiple languages. Putin’s thugs broke up a pro-Flying-Spaghetti-Monster demonstration in Russia. At the time, this seemed perfectly normal.
Now that I think about it, yeah, it's definitely weird how normal this seemed at the time.
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@Gąska in the current era it actually sounds almost too normal, because to me the world has just gotten so ridiculous that even the comparatively out-there-for-the-time FSM feels normalised now.
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@Gąska No more weird than an egregious example of the collective internets taking some arguably funny concept and running it into ground, digging a crater, boring into the mantle, then coming out on the other side, achieving escape velocity and keeping it going into the void of space.
Back-breaking hard labor, poor crops, famines, plagues and dark ages in general can't return soon enough. Most people didn't have time for stupid back then.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
Back-breaking hard labor, poor crops, famines, plagues and dark ages in general can't return soon enough. Most people didn't have time for stupid back then.
Steady on, that seems a bit harsh.
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@Arantor Obviously like every such little schmuck enjoying illusions of vengeance against the unfair world, I wouldn't want to be among the most.
Would rather imagine myself sitting above them all on tiger furs and jewels adorned throne sipping vinegar vine from a skull goblet, listening to pleas of plucky shepherds before ordering beheading some of them for sport, then retiring to a personally selected harem.
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@Applied-Mediocrity way I see it, I have a pretty cushy life and my whining is mostly just that. But dear $deity, can I have less stupid in the world for once? I wouldn’t even mandate hard labour etc, if I could just make the average intelligence level move upwards a few points.
I’m certainly no big brain genius but the amount of “how do you not see this obvious thing?” is distressing.
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@Arantor I'm afraid that's not possible.
- It would appear that Intelligence is not the governing stat for that. An unquantifiable set of one's continued experiences and circumstances is.
- Entropy always increases. With it, the number of conflicting opinions will only ever go up.
The only way to achieve a greater conformity of opinion is to instead reduce every individual's capabilities of reasoning, remove all self-awareness and qualia. A vegetable does not tell right from wrong. Nor does it care to.
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@Applied-Mediocrity so I can expect the future to actually be Idiocracy, and that I’m going to become an increasingly grumpy old man as I watch idiots get more idiotic? Fuck me, what a retirement to look forward to.
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@Arantor I've known this since I was 8.
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
so I can expect the future to actually be Idiocracy
Or a sizeable approximation thereof. Fiction writers have no sense of scale.
become an increasingly grumpy old man as I watch idiots get more idiotic
Fuck me
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
can I have less stupid in the world for once?
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@dkf Zappa's Synthesis is called for, yes? "There's a lot of stupid out there, and it's only getting dumber. You have to harness stupidity and make it work for you."
I'm not a rodeo clown - I'm a charioteer!
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I know grackles like lots of different kinds of fruit. I made one bird's day once by giving him a wedge of my clementine, and I've seen what's left after they get ahold of a banana or one of those small seedless watermelons.
What I don't get is the utter disdain they have for a fruit that grows in wild profusion here: dates. It's like they see this brown lump and think I'm offering them a turd or something; they won't even get close enough to find out that it's sweet.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Now that I think about it, yeah, it's definitely weird how normal this seemed at the time.
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska in the current era it actually sounds almost too normal, because to me the world has just gotten so ridiculous that even the comparatively out-there-for-the-time FSM feels normalised now.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska No more weird than an egregious example of the collective internets taking some arguably funny concept and running it into ground, digging a crater, boring into the mantle, then coming out on the other side, achieving escape velocity and keeping it going into the void of space.
I'm not sure what your points are, I feel like I'm missing something here.
FSM is satire, and the entire point of it is that it is not a single bit more ridiculous than the religion(s) it's mocking. So what's weird about that?
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
FSM is satire
A satire that got officially recognized as a valid religious institution in the UK and probably a few other countries. British pastafarians - and only pastafarians - are legally allowed to have ID photos with a colander on their head. And my reaction at the time was "yeah, it was only a matter of time this happened".
I don't remember reading anything in the news about any joke religion in over 10 years. The whole thing died down completely.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
I'm not sure what your points are, I feel like I'm missing something here.
Nothing about it is weird, is my point. I wanted to remark that internet retards don't always limit their retarded actions to the transient nature of internets. What's the more recent example like that? Gamestop ? Shit got serious.
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@Gąska you can also register as Jedi somewhere, I think Australia? But yeah, people demanded to be able to wear kippas or hijabs on official ID pictures, so that was kind of a logical consequence.
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@topspin my general point - and the point of the article I linked - is that while internet edgelords were always a thing and they always had some impact on real world, the edgelordship of the 2000s was all about mocking established religions for their non-provability, but by the mid-2010s this brand of edgelordship all but disappeared. If FSM movement was born today, it would look really out of place compared to other contemporary social movements, but 15 years ago they were just one of many. 15 years isn't a lot.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
A satire that got officially recognized as a valid religious institution in the UK and probably a few other countries
It's not here AFAIK.
Google reckons it is in New Zealand though.@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
you can also register as Jedi somewhere, I think Australia
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
15 years isn't a lot.
That depends on your viewpoint. On the one hand, . On the other, 15 years ago I was happily married, owned a house, and had (I thought) a stable, long-term job I could retire from.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
had (I thought) a stable, long-term job I could retire from.
Why were you working in a stable anyway? I thought you were @HardwareGeek.
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@Gąska I blame social media (in general, but also for this specifically).
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Great onebox as always!
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
FSM is satire, and the entire point of it is that it is not a single bit more ridiculous than the religion(s) it's mocking. So what's weird about that?
Exogenously and formally, by accident of discovery, the divine revelation of is classified as satire, but in truth was via the miraculous swirling action of His Noodly Appendage. Please burn for your heresy as time permits.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin my general point - and the point of the article I linked - is that while internet edgelords were always a thing and they always had some impact on real world, the edgelordship of the 2000s was all about mocking established religions for their non-provability, but by the mid-2010s this brand of edgelordship all but disappeared. If FSM movement was born today, it would look really out of place compared to other contemporary social movements, but 15 years ago they were just one of many. 15 years isn't a lot.
A rather poor-quality Mighty Mouse knockoff was recently deified on the Indian subcontinent, but I'm not revering them until their check clears.
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I think we need to create a religion that believes in The Great Kneeling Warthog, and considers "doing fuck all" a form of prayer (so that people wouldn't dare interrupt us).
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@Zerosquare would that make @apapadimoulis like the pope?
inb4 @apopeadimoulis
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@loopback0 said in Random thought of the day:
@Zerosquare would that make @apapadimoulis like the pope?
Does shit in the woods?
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@loopback0 said in Random thought of the day:
@Zerosquare would that make @apapadimoulis like the pope?
Does shit in the woods?
Sometimes. Not often. When he can bring himself to give a shit.
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
I think we need to create a religion that believes in The Great Kneeling Warthog, and considers "doing fuck all" a form of prayer (so that people wouldn't dare interrupt us).
Yes! Let's do this!
Just not right now.